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@Sinjin

Thank you! Popped was the one I couldn't figure out. Fixing it now!

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@Sinjin Man, I tell ya, writing and editing my haiku has been a journey. I don't know where my brain's been but I totally looked up the rules for syllables and saw 5-7-5 and even though triple checked still flipped it to 7-5-7. Only for that tool to flag it as you stated and me to realize somehow what I wrote was 7-7-5. I was wrong twice over =_= (and I triple checked!)

All that to say it is now edited, and thank you so much for giving my forgetful brain the opportunity to do so <3

Edited entry

I triple checked again...hopefully I haven't done something similiarly confused lol.

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Also, just an aside, Alkonosts is soooooo beautiful. Great genes and an even more awesome outfit to go with! I'd love that skydancer even if he wasn't an XXY G1!!!

[center][size=6][color=#13420c][font=zapfino][b]Week 2[/size][/font][color=#13420c] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=82266268][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/battlesprites/822663/82266268.png[/img][/url] As the poetry contest moved into full swing, Alkonosts bustled to and fro, eyes wide with excitement. Why, so many dragons were coming, so many new friends from all, all over! Some big, some small, some frilled and spiked and furry, they mingled with each other and among the harpies and birds in a conglomerate of shapes. But one thing came and drew them all together. The same thing, come smiles or frowns. They all, too, loved poems. What a dream come true! He grinned up at an elder guardian with a smooth, rolling voice, shook hands with a pale-white glimmering wildclaw draped in elegant veils, thrilled an array of notes in response to the strummed strings of one dragon's harp. Back and forth, wings a-flutter, his five little friends eagerly squawking and soaring around him, basking in the revelry. [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/cms/familiar/art/16912.png[/img] Liege watched over the events with two sharp eyes, sending some of the participants shifting nervously. Which was silly, in Alkonosts' eyes— could they not see he was simply enjoying the poetry like anyone else? Well. Enjoying the poetry and contemplating a snack, as the roc's eyes slowly traced Verdy's paunchy green shape fluttering about. His head leaned down and creeper, close, close, closer... "Isn't this [i]great?![/i]" The dragon-not-bird launched himself up, one arm wrapping affectionately around Liege in a hug and the other scooping the percher up against his chest and safely out of the way. (Next time, maybe). "Things have only just gotten started, and there's so many, soooo many! Look at this one, isn't it nice?" He shoved one scroll right up under Liege's beak for a moment before his head perked up and swiveled. "Oh, oh, there's someone else! Another one here! Come on, let's see what they've brought!" [item=Long Form Poetry] And like a shot, off Alkonosts went again to see what new works the participants had brought. [size=0]@BunnySox @Janury @Sysmic @tigressRising @harpyja @UmbraGlide @Saronai @hannahbbug3 @WolfEyedAngel @FinalFlight @findingpears @Storygeek @Hludana @WolfEyedAngel @Kilonian @Islet @Hollowcene @sarcasticmoose @Qingqing @Starefaba @clovur @Sinjin @SpiritHare @Tanganika @Zytolo

This is so cool and hopefully I'll enter again for other categories! Oliver's excited to stretch his poetry muscles and offer up some words. [I]Hello! I'd like to offer up a poem to the Wind! Judges: @Sinjin @SpiritHare @Tanganika @Zytolo[/i] [b]FR Player Name:[/b] italicised [b]FR Player ID#:[/b] 316397 [b]Dragon Poet's Name:[/b] Oliver [b]Dragon Poet's ID#:[/b] 34674502 [b]Dragon Poet Image:[/b] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/34674502][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/346746/34674502_350.png[/img][/url] [b]Entry Category:[/b] New Outlook [b]Entry Title:[/b] Unfairweather Friend [b]Entry: [/b] tree-bending wall-creaking wind through whistling rain rattling dusty windscreens in windows breathing in their tracks with every passing gust and squall you could have hid under piles of blankets and pillows but edge-teetering breathlessness enraptured, captured you, when you asked the storm questions and it answered back bow your head and bare your neck to air made better with touch an invisible friend toying with your hair, petal and leaf showering days saying listen, listen, listen to breath not your own make fear your best friend and you'll never be alone.

[I]Hello! I'd like to offer up a poem to the Wind! Judges: @Sinjin @SpiritHare @Tanganika @Zytolo[/i] [b]FR Player Name:[/b] Sysmic [b]FR Player ID#:[/b] 231210 [b]Dragon Poet's Name:[/b] Zepora [b]Dragon Poet's ID#:[/b] 21608735 [b]Dragon Poet Image:[/b] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/21608735][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/216088/21608735_350.png[/img][/url] [b]Entry Category:[/b] Together or Apart [b]Entry Title:[/b] We'll Be There [b]Entry: [/b] As a child, you've said to us if neither of you were there physically, you would be there in spirit. It was how you comforted us when we felt alone. Both of you knew what would happen eventually. There isn't a soul who would be ready for what came. We grew up without you, it wasn't your choice, For fate had plans for all of us that day. Years passed, we can't visit often. I speak to you from hundreds of miles. Now grown, I repeated those words back to you and your voice was bittersweet. I await the day we're together again, where we won't say goodbye for decades to come. But for now, when we're not there physically, we'll be there with you in spirit.

@Sinjin A question for whenever you have a moment.

I realize why our poems must be in English, of course, but I'm wondering if it's okay to include a few (admittedly repeated) lines of a made-up language/code.

I would include a note at the beginning that the "foreign words" are there as a pretty, nonsense version of call-and-response passwords memorized between the two characters. Their existence is important, but the meaning is not. As such, I felt writing them in English might be confusing within the poem's narrative.

It's just a block of language-like syllables to prevent the reader from focusing on translations that won't make sense in the context of a poem, but were made clear within the context of the characters' actual story.

That being said, if even this falls under breaking the "English only" rule, I will have a think about how to rework it without, no hard feelings.

[I]Hello! I'd like to offer up a poem to the Wind! Judges: @Sinjin @SpiritHare @Tanganika @Zytolo[/i] [b]FR Player Name:[/b] findingpears [b]FR Player ID#:[/b] #517838 [b]Dragon Poet's Name:[/b] Nyérë [b]Dragon Poet's ID#:[/b] #74508299 [b]Dragon Poet Image:[/b] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/74508299][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/745083/74508299_350.png[/img][/url] [b]Entry Category:[/b] Together or Apart [b]Entry Title:[/b] The Parts We Loved [b]Entry: [/b] You loved the way the light catches on the leaves, the Sun illuminating them overhead lighting them up, vibrant green. I liked the dark spots, closer to the middle where the leaves overlap again and again and again until there is no light there at all. You pointed out the breeze that scattered the dark spots so light poked through like stars. I came to love that the most. Its different, watching on my own. All the colours look the same. They blend together, murky green and there's no part I like at all.

[columns][color=#13420c]"[size=5]S[/size]aronai that is a very good question." Herman raised a brow a Peregrina. "[size=5]I[/size] agree. In fact when the rules were being written out. This one made us pause. You see there is a Primal in our lair who, while she understands English, only speak Italian. Her mate will help translate if possible. But often you can understand what she is saying without the translation. I know I've enjoyed long conversations with her without really understanding everything. Why just the other day..." Peregrina drifted off subject. [size=5]H[/size]erman sighed, "So what you're saying it's okay if a poem uses another know, or unknown, language if there is a translation? Say at the Bottom of the poem?" "[size=5]Y[/size]es! That's a very good idea. This years is all about change so the rule will be updated." [/color][nextcol][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/52646810][img]https://i.imgur.com/kG9bN26.png[/img][/url][/columns][center][color=#13420c] [size=6][b]Rule Update[/b][/size][/center] [color=#13420c] Rule 7. Your poem must be in English. [indent][color=#13420c]- However the use of other languages in the poem is allowed; as long as the translation is provided at the bottom of the page.[/indent] [center][size=0][color=#13420c]@BunnySox @Janury @Sysmic @tigressRising @harpyja @UmbraGlide @Saronai @hannahbbug3 @WolfEyedAngel @FinalFlight @findingpears @Storygeek @Hludana @WolfEyedAngel @Kilonian @Islet @Hollowcene @sarcasticmoose @Qingqing @Starefaba @clovur @italicised @Sinjin @SpiritHare @Tanganika @Zytolo